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Definitely would reach for remix before next, and I would go with a big cloud provider container app solution such as Azure container apps (if azure was better) or Google Cloud Run (good, but do you trust google?) before Vercel.

Personally I think ORMs are mostly bad and Prisma is more of the same. Zapatos at least gives you typed SQL results without a lot of overhead.




Agree with this. Remix is a thousand times better than Next.

We migrated our main application to Remix and couldn't be happier. The app router stuff is such a mess.


Why Remix over Next?

As for the ORM / query building, did you also consider Drizzle and Kysely against Zapatos?


Next is buggy, Remix mostly just works, and I have zero interest in Vercel which is the Next selling point IMO.

I haven't played with either Drizzle or Kysely, looking at the docs Drizzle in particular looks slimmer and more sql-like which is a plus, though in general I think having an environment like dbeaver or data grip that gives you completions for your queries and developing them there then copy/pasting the code and getting type safety on raw queries with zapatos is still superior for power users who know sql.




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